Patent No. 7555566. 2009
Massively parallel supercomputer.By processing complex algorithms in parallel at 1.5 quadrillion calculations per second, this innovation performs once-impossible analytical feats, like predicting the eects of long-term climate change anywhere on Earth. The insights could help us prepare for the future of everything from farming to tourism to energy to, most puzzling of all, politics.
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I had something very similar thing freshman year.
Nanosponges could soak up deadly infections like MRSA from your bloodstream
Researchers have developed biomimetic nanosponges that could prove an effective way of dealing with antibiotic-resistant infections. Each nanosponge is a tiny polymer-based particle measuring 85nm (around one 300,000th of an inch) across that’s been wrapped in a red blood cell membrane. When scientists injected the material into mice, toxic proteins attached themselves to the nanosponges and were harmlessly transported to the liver for removal.
This is cool!
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How to never give up on becoming an entrepreneur…
Here’s another great infographic on entrepreneurship, which shows the many ups and downs it takes to finally reach that golden goal!
Duke vs. UNC in Cameron. Wednesday. 9pm (EST). ESPN.
72 hours and 53 minutes to go.
72 hours and 7 minutes.
What do you have planned now that you’re moving on from this project?
I’m going to be in a pilot for Fox, which is really exciting. It’s called Flat Broke, and Ryan Murphy is producing it. Kathy Bates plays a woman who’s trying to start her life over again after a divorce, and she’s making money for herself by becoming a seamstress.
Who do you play?
…I play an iron.
Do you have a fear of being typecast?
I’m just playing to my strengths. I do have inquiries in about playing a panini press in an off-Broadway musical next spring.
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Get Severance: Interview With An Iron
From an interview with Monopoly’s recently retired iron game piece. — heidi
(via npr)A sad end to a great career. Replaced by a cat, what is the world coming to?
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The new data-storage molecules are known as “graphene fragments,” because they largely consist of flat sheets of carbo
n (which are attached to zinc atoms). That makes them easier to align during deposition, which could simplify the manufacture of molecular memories. (Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT)
An experimental technology called molecular memory could store data in individual molecules has been developed by an international team of researchers led by Jagadeesh Moodera, a senior research scientist in the MIT Department of Physics and at MIT’s Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory,
The technology promises a 1,000-fold increase in storage density over hard disks, which are approaching a million megabytes of data per square inch.
Previous schemes for molecular memory have relied on physical systems cooled to near absolute zero. The new molecular-memory scheme works at around the freezing point of water — which in physics parlance counts as “room temperature.”
Moreover, where previous schemes required sandwiching the storage molecules between two ferromagnetic electrodes, the new scheme would require only one ferromagnetic electrode. That could greatly simplify manufacture, as could the shape of the storage molecules themselves: because they consist of flat sheets of carbon atoms attached to zinc atoms, they can be deposited in very thin layers with very precise arrangements.
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